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Twenty years after being chased out of his tiny village, Louis Bapaume returns to Saint-Aldor to make amends. Over the course of one bright winter solstice, Bapaume confronts old neighbors and villagers and encounters haunting figures he can't quite recognize. But there's only one person he seeks: the twin girl he taught to read music and to whom he wishes to atone. In this intricate, disquieting novel, the line between reality and dreams shif...

An ethnography in which the author's fieldwork with transgendered and transsexual individuals in New York City demonstrates the creation and confusion of gender identity labels.

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Wenn draußen die Blätter von den Bäumen wirbeln und es ungemütlich wird, ist es höchste Zeit für kuschelige Stunden auf dem Sofa mit Kerzen, einer dampfenden Tasse Tee oder Kakao und schönen Geschichten.Rotraut Susanne Berner hat über 150 Geschichten, Lieder und Gedichte zusammengetragen, die die ganze Familie vom Herbst, über die Advents- und Weihnachtszeit bis hin zum Fasching begleiten. Neben bekannten Texten gibt es Neues zu entdecken, näm...

Der kleine Braunbär und seine Mutter bestaunen zusammen die vielen aufregenden Tiere, die die Wildnis um sie herum zu bieten hat. Über 40 Jahre nach ihrem gemeinsamen Erstling haben sich Eric Carle und Bill Martin Jr wieder zu einem Bilderbuchprojekt zusammengefunden. 1966, drei Jahre vor der Kleinen Raupe Nimmersatt, erschien Eric Carles erstes Bilderbuch nach einer Idee von Bill Martin Jr: Brauner Bär, wen siehst denn du? Das völlig neuart...

Collective Memory examines contemporary transmission of memories in France of the Algerian war of independence (1954 62). The work emphasizes the lack of transmission of memories of this war through a detailed case study of three crucial vectors of memory: school history, the media, and the family, and argues that lack of transmission of memories is feeding into contemporary racism in France.

Contrary to common belief, macroeconomics is not merely a theory of aggregates, and cannot be constructed from individual behaviour. Both nationally and internationally, there are economic laws that are logically independent of economic agents' behaviour. These are the macroeconomic foundations of macroeconomics.Presenting cutting-edge material, Alvaro Cencini explores these foundations, and shows that the introduction of money entails economi...

Feminist legal scholars and health care lawyers have long engaged with lawa (TM)s responses to the female reproductive body, especially on what the legal regulation of womena (TM)s reproductive lives can tell us about the broader relationship between law and gender. Acknowledging this work and building upon it, Endowed considers the interaction of law and ideas of male reproductivity. In particular, it seeks to uncover what these regulatory mo...

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Core Actors in America challenges the ontological assumptions of America's dominant public philosophy, liberalism, and its more affectionate subordinate, communitarianism. Neither provides a sufficiently robust account of who we are and what we are capable of achieving in the social and political arenas. Dr. Stephen Terhune Smith presents an alternative view that focuses on the world view and historical impact of core actors, morally informed ...

For twenty-five years, Tom Allison was a revenuer, a federal agent charged with enforcement of the nation's laws on taxation of liquor. His territory was the hills, hollows and deep woods of Alabama, and his quarry was the illegal whiskey makers. Allison remembers the stake-outs in the brush, the undercover assignments, the long waits to catch the distillery operators red-handed, and, of course, the chases as he and his fellow treasury agents ...

The Rebirth of the feminine surrounds us in many forms -- from the worldwide movement for women's rights to the resurgence of interest in the feminine spirituality of the Goddess and the Divine Mother. What is the spiritual meaning of this rebirth? What is the feminine divine? Who is she?She has had many names in many cultures: Ishtar in Babylon, Inanna in Sumeria, Athena, Hera, Demeter, and Persephone in Greece, Isis in Egypt, Durga, Kali, an...